My first cousin four times removed. Born March 9 1846 in Gibson County Tennessee. Enlisted April 4 1862 at Camp Trenton TN. at the age of sixteen. Discharged January 20 1863 at Shelbyville TN. for being under-age. Died July 26 1901. Buried Crockett County Tennessee.

My first cousin four times removed. Born July 25 1847 in Gibson County Tennessee. Enlisted Feb.14 1862, Camp Trenton Gibson County TN, at the age of fourteen. Discharged Jan. 20 1863 at Shelbyville TN. for being under-age. Died Sept. 11 1914 in Crockett County TN. His widow Katherine Lucretia Henderson Reasons received a widow's pension for his service.

William entered the service 12/2/1861 from Gibson Co., TN. I have a long letter he wrote from Chattanooga dated Oct. 11, 1863. He was furloughed May 2, 1865 at Greensboro, NC. He died April 21, 1877, in Livingston Co., TN; buried Bellamy-Chesnuut Cemetery on the banks of the Ohio River.

I have his service and pension records. He lived near Harris Station until moving to Izard county Arkansas in the 1870''sHis brother William S. Brockwell and brother-in-law George Washington Oliver also served in Co. I

William enlisted along with his brother James H. at Troy Tn. Nov. 28 1861. He saw action at Shiloh on April 7th and was with the reg't at Richmond Ky and Murfreesboro Tn. where he was wounded in the arm by a minnie ball and in the left breast by artillery shrapnel. He was invalided out of the army, and returned to Harris Station in Obion Co. In 1905 he applied for and was granted a Confederate Soldier's Pension from Tennessee.

At the age of seventeen, Andrew J. Collinsworth entered the army, joining Capt. Jesse L. Branch's company and then the Forty-seventh Tennessee Regiment, at Trenton, Tennessee commanded by Col. M.R. Hill. He served in the war with the distinction of being one of the bravest boys and hardest fighters in the service. He was severely wounded in what was known as the hardest picket fight during the war at Corinth, Miss., by a minie ball, which shattered his leg, and from which he was never fully recovered.